Just curious — what is the highest bonus you’ve received/seen/heard of as a paralegal? My personal highest has been 20k.

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$45k — not biglaw

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$15,000 midsize in NY

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Very nice

$7,500 Christmas Bonus + $5,000 Easter Bonus - International Boutique Firm in Texas

$5,000 - BigLaw in Texas

$2,000 - Small Firm in Texas

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$20,000. Boutique firm in Texas.

$500 and $250, employment firm in New York.

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Literally. I was blessed to find my forever firm. I do a ton of work, but how can you complain when your attorneys genuinely appreciate you/the work you do and you are on the same page as to work ethic etc. with the other paralegal in the office?

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I billed over 2100 hours and raked in $107k over my collections goal. This grossed me a $33,500 bonus. I’m at a large regional defense firm in the southeast.

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$5k $4.5 mil pi case.. small plaintiffs firm

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$60k - small firm in PA

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I got a $50K signing bonus during pandemic when I came to my current firm. But never received bonus over 15K for work… NYC big law

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The biggest bonus I received as a paralegal is one week's salary. One was at a local solo attorney's office that I worked at for a number of years.

The next time I received one week's pay as a bonus was at a local mid-sized law firm.

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